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Gore Vidal: A Critical Companion
Susan C. Baker
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Description for Gore Vidal: A Critical Companion
Hardback. Gore Vidal has been entertaining - and occasionally outraging - the American public for 50 years. This study examines Vidal's recent and early novels, and considers the recurring theme of the decline of the United States. Series: Critical Companions to Popular Contemporary Writers. Num Pages: 232 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 239 x 160 x 24. Weight in Grams: 500.
Gore Vidal has been entertaining, and occasionally outraging, the American public for fifty years. In the course of his long career, Vidal has set new intellectual and artistic standards for American historical fiction and has also established himself in the first rank of contemporary social satirists. This is the first full-length study to include Vidal's most recent novels and the first designed to meet the needs of the general reader as well as students of contemporary literature. It includes discussions of Lincoln, Empire, Hollywood, and Live from Golgotha, as well as his earlier novels. Baker and Gibson show that while ... Read more
Gore Vidal has been entertaining, and occasionally outraging, the American public for fifty years. In the course of his long career, Vidal has set new intellectual and artistic standards for American historical fiction and has also established himself in the first rank of contemporary social satirists. This is the first full-length study to include Vidal's most recent novels and the first designed to meet the needs of the general reader as well as students of contemporary literature. It includes discussions of Lincoln, Empire, Hollywood, and Live from Golgotha, as well as his earlier novels. Baker and Gibson show that while ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
Series
Critical Companions to Popular Contemporary Writers
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780313295799
SKU
V9780313295799
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About Susan C. Baker
SUSAN BAKER is Professor of English at the University of Nevada in Reno. She is coeditor (with Dorothea Kehler) of In Another Country: Feminist Perspectives on Renaissance Drama (1991) and is completing a book-length study of Shakespeare in detective fiction. CURTIS S. GIBSON, her husband, is a nonacademic enthusiast of Gore Vidal's work. Both Baker and Gibson have essays ... Read more
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